John Borton
Senior Test Automation Engineer

John Borton

Blackbox testing and validation of complex systems, with a background spanning defense engineering and physics.

About

I'm a senior systems and software test automation engineer with a dual CS/Statistics background, currently pursuing a master's in data analytics at Georgia Tech. My work centers on designing automation architecture and blackbox testing complex systems: I drive them with automated inputs, collect the resulting system data, and run job-queued analysis pipelines to validate behavior in a defense engineering environment, where a physics minor sharpened my focus on measurement. I also mentor other engineers on automation practices and architecture, and I'm confident in this work and enjoy its breadth. Beyond that, I'm growing increasingly interested in applying that same rigor to data engineering, machine learning, and data science.

Key Skills

Data Engineering

ETL / ELT Pipeline Design Data Wrangling & Cleaning Relational DB Design High-Volume Ingestion Real-Time Stream Analysis

ML & Statistics

High-Dimensional Regression Statistical Inference Monte Carlo Simulations Feature Engineering GPU Acceleration (Pytorch/CUDA)

Software Engineering

Bash Scripting C++ (Boost Libraries) Docker Kubernetes AI-Assisted Development

Frontend Design

JavaScript (React/Node) Qt (Python) Squish (Qt Automation) PowerBI (DAX)

Platforms & Tooling

Git CI/CD (Jenkins) Linux DevOps Agile / Scrum

What I'm Looking For

I'm open to three kinds of roles:

In any case, I'm especially drawn to domains where the stakes make rigor non-negotiable: defense, aerospace, and scientific or research computing. If that's what you're building, I'd love to connect.